Disclaimer: All information on this site including links and timelines, has been kindly contributed by current/former postgraduate students. While we hope that it will be helpful, it may not always be fully accurate, complete, or up to date, and details could change over time. Please use this as a general guide and always double-check with official sources.
General Information
| Cambridge Postgraduate Course Directory | List of postgraduate courses | |
| Cambridge Postgraduate Funding Search | To browse scholarships you may be eligible for – this is list covers most University-based funding | |
| Cambridge Postgraduate Funding Page | Generic funding information | |
Key University or External funding sources
(that Malaysians are generally eligible for)
Note: This is not a comprehensive list. Most scholarships listed here are broad and open to various subjects. You are strongly encouraged to check individual Department and College websites to identify additional funding opportunities that may be relevant to your subject, e.g. project-based scholarships/studentships from Research Councils or external funding bodies
| Scholarship/funding body | Applied through the Applicant Portal (same as the course application)? | Application window for October 2026 entry | College requirements |
| Cambridge Trust Scholarships (including Commonwealth) | Varies – please check website | Varies – please check website | |
| Gates Cambridge Scholarship | Yes | Same as course deadline | |
| Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme | Yes | Same as course deadline | |
| UKRI-funded Doctoral Training Programmes | Varies – please check website | Varies – please check website | |
| Fitzwilliam College Hong Leong – Lee Kuan Yew scholarship | Yes | Same as course deadline | Fitzwilliam College as first/second choice |
| Tunku Abdul Rahman Scholarship | Yes | Same as course deadline | St Catharine’s College as first/second choice |
| Philip Bowring Scholarship | St Catharine’s College as first/second choice | ||
| Jardine Scholarship | No – separate application through college | ~Feb 2026* | Downing, Magdalene, Peterhouse, Trinity (but can still apply if did not select these as your choices) |
| My BrainSc Scholarship | No | ~April-May 2026* | |
| Chevening Scholarship | No | Closed | |
| Khazanah – Cambridge Scholarship | No | ~March 2026* | |
| Yang di-Pertuan Agong Scholarship/JPA Scholarships | No | ~February-March 2026* |
Have any questions? Reach out to one of our postgrads!
Note: All contacts listed here have kindly volunteered to support Malaysians applying for postgraduate study at Cambridge. Please reach out respectfully, understanding that they may not always be able to reply. All details are shared with consent, and any communication from contributors reflects their personal experiences, not the official views of Cambridge or CUMaS.
| Name | Course and Matriculation Year | College | Scholarship | Preferred contact method | Ask me about… |
| Lee Jia Yi | PhD Medical Science (MRC Epidemiology Unit) 2024, MPhil Population Health Sciences 2021 | Downing, Wolfson | Gates Cambridge, Cambridge Trust International Scholarship | https://www.linkedin.com/in/leejiayi6/ jiayi.lee@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk | Anything! 🙂 I work on Population Health and Epidemiology, am also familiar with Oxford Population Health DPhil/NDPH Trainee Fellowship application |
| Phua Shin Zert | MPhil in Human-inspired Artificial Intelligence 2025 | Fitzwilliam | Gates Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College Hong Leong – Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship | https://www.linkedin.com/in/phuashinzert/ szp20@cam.ac.uk | Anything! 🙂 Please drop a note if you are connecting on LinkedIn Experience: Digital Twin, Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance/Ethics |
| Dr. Tan Chee Yong | PhD in Development Studies 2021, MPhil in Sociology, 2020 | St. Catharine’s College | Tunku Abdul Rahman Scholarship, Cambridge Trust Scholarship, and Cambridge’s Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre’s Fund | https://www.linkedin.com/in/cytan1704/ ; cheeyong.tan@khazanah.com.my | Anything, including application tips on Khazanah’s scholarship and job applications |
| Goh Chun Ting | PhD in Engineering 2025 | Magdalene | Khazanah-Cambridge Scholarship | www.linkedin.com/in/gohchunting ctg30@cam.ac.uk | Anything, I work on vascular tissue engineering I previously studied at Nanyang Technological University and completed my secondary school in Chinese Independent School but completed SPM and studied A levels for pre university |
| Mok Siao Chi | PhD in Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics 2022, MASt in Pure Mathematics 2021 | Newnham | Cambridge Trust International, Newnham College and DPMMS Scholarship, MyBrainSc Scholarship (undergraduate) | scm91@cam.ac.uk https://sites.google.com/view/siaochimok | Anything 🙂 I’m passionate about women in STEM, especially mathematics! I can also be contacted for info about MyBrainSc (I think MyBrainSc for postgraduate is not too different from undergrad!) |
| Zheng Hong See | PhD in Law, 2024 | St. Catharine’s College | Tunku Abdul Rahman Scholarship | https://www.linkedin.com/in/zheng-hong-sebastian-see/ zhs23@cam.ac.uk | Tunku Scholarship and anything including those law-related (profession and academia-related)! |
| Ryan Law Mian Chien | PhD in Medical Science (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit), 2022 | St. Catharine’s College | Gates Cambridge | ll674@cam.ac.uk ryan.law@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmc-law/ https://rmc-law.github.io/ | Feel free to ask anything, but to help you get a sense of my experiences and expertise, see my LinkedIn and personal website (see contact methods). I’m from Kuching, Sarawak. Broadly I work at the intersection between neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, computational modelling (incl. neural network simulations). I also co-led a project on AI evaluation inspired by animal cognition research. Happy to chat about anything application related, science, interdiscipline research, navigating academia, moving and living abroad, managing supervisor relationships, and many more. I mentored prospective applicants from underrepresented backgrounds e.g. in preparing research proposals. |
| Hoong Hao Yap | MRes + PhD in Engineering | Queens’ College | Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Doctoral Training (FIBE2 CDT), UKRI International Fee Bursary, Geotechnical Consulting Group Industrial Sponsorship | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoong-hao-yap/ https://kenneth-yap.vercel.app/ | Anything really! Previously studied at Imperial College London & ETH Zurich. Gathered lots of travel tips in the process 😀 |
| Navaroshini Bala Muraly (Nava) | MPhil in Biological Sciences (Dev Bio), 2024 PhD in Clinical Neurosciences(starting next year, 2026) | Downing | Jardine Postgraduate Scholarship (MPhil) & MyBrainsc Scholarship (PhD) | nb742@cam.ac.uk | I am currently working as a RA in MBU and my work mainly focuses on the intersection between mitochondrial dysfunction and neural stem cell biology. I completed my undergraduate studies in Malaysia and attended government schools for both primary and secondary education. If anyone with a similar background is applying to Cambridge, I’d be more than happy to help with the application process. So, feel free to ask anything! |
| Huey Ying Kok | PhD in Pharmacology (2023) | Girton | Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme | hyk27@cam.ac.uk | I have a background in molecular biology and am currently working on targeted protein degradation. Happy to chat about applying for a PhD in biology-related subjects at Cambridge (writing personal statements and research proposals). |
| Chin Kar Yern | MPhil in World History | St Catharine’s | Gates Cambridge | kyc39@cam.ac.uk karyern.chin@gmail.com | Anything! Happy to also help with: -comparative questions between UK and US processes (previously US undergrad, received Fulbright 2025) -research funding (Center for History and Economics Prize Research Student Grant 2025) |
| Rashidah Abdul Hamid | PhD in Law, 2023 | St Catharine’s | SLAI Fellowship Programme (University of Malaya in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education) | ra357@cam.ac.uk | Anything. I was an undergraduate at Robinson College (BA Law) and did my LLM at University of Malaya. If anyone is interested in an academic career at UM after postgrad studies, particularly through the SLAI Programme, I am happy to answer questions and/or facilitate connection with my UM contacts. Also happy to take questions about life as a postgrad student with a family. |
| Lim Wei Jie | MPhil in Film and Screen Studies | Hughes Hall | Chevening Scholarship | wjl41@cam.ac.uk | Anything. I have a BFA from the states, happy to take questions on anything arts or film related. Currently working on a long-form documentary about British colonialism in Malaya |